First week at superior bulk is down ask me anything

Thanks for this response, it's definitely useful info!

Do you know anything about the Pasadena, TX terminal just outside of Houston? That's where I would be trying to get hired on w/ Superior.

 

I get what you're saying here, and not to argue b/c I certainly don't know for sure, but the way you're posing this assumes a simple average and that seems unlikely to me? I.e., you're assuming the same number of trips / miles loaded and unloaded which would bring about the average .51 cpm you're talking about. I would assume though that most drivers do a much higher percentage of loaded miles b/c that actually makes money for company vs unloaded miles which I would think would only happen between local terminals and the customer sites.

Still though, this is a good question for the OP:
- What's your ratio of loaded vs unloaded miles? How often do you find drivers are having to pull unloaded tankers and generally how far vs loaded miles? Also how often / far are you catching "dead-head" miles?

 

Mods, can you delete my comment about the split pay?

It is my personal pet peeve and has no business in this thread that is about his beginning career at Superior.

I have alot of respect for Superior and it may very well be the next play I go.

I meant no argument, and dont want to derail his thread or seem like I am trying to enforce my opinion on others.

I apologize.

 

fwiw when I was company I averaged .67/mi hub all in. This was 2015 and running mostly system with a few out n backs for the home terminal. I was loaded around 75% of the time running system.

As an IC I prefer the out n back, I just hate hate hate running system now.

 

How is it being an IC there? I think I read one thread that said it wasn’t that good. Do you mind sharing or sending me a DM

 

It's not bad. I do mostly the same dedicated out-n-back that pays very nicely. If I could I would like to renegotiate the contract to include carrier paid tolls. Right now its basically all on the IC and for me, running in the north east, it adds up real quick. Other than that I'm happy where I'm at. We do have some cheap freight that is around 1.70/mi (to the IC) but anything less than that I would just refuse to even take. They have company drivers for that cheap stuff. One nice thing about doing out-n-back is depending on product and trailer you can sometimes get an extra load on the way back home for extra $$. Last year I did that with a run we had from Boston to Cincy, I would deliver and then get a load going in to PA. It usually added one day but it was worth an extra $1500 on top of the dedicated rate.

 

1.70 low lol I definitely need to get away from Schneider their loads are ###. What about any kinda fuel surcharges or discounts?

 

FSC is a % of the linehaul, currently its 20.5% but will go up with the price of diesel. So if linehaul is $1,000 you get 62% of that + 100% of the fsc which would be $825 to you.
Discounts on parts and tires and such. I'm paying between 2.55 - 2.70 per gallon fuel depending on the state. Demurge depends on the contract for that freight, usually its around $70/hr to you after 2 hours (it can take a long time to get paid out if the shipper/receiver disputes it or just refuses to pay). You'll get paid for all accessory charges, like extra hoses, scaling, border cross, pump/compressor, sometimes holiday/sunday deliveries, etc.

It's honestly not bad, I'm really not happy about the possibility the company is going to be under new ownership and potentially new management soon.